Racial Justice Team

07/09/2023

A story about how The Guardian is exploring its history. Worth a read.

In a multimedia series, The Guardian becomes the latest British institution to confront — and apologize for — its role in the slave trade.

07/07/2023

This article from The Guardian is worth a read.

‘Allyship’ can often be used to hold us hostage, writes Sisonke Msimang, and ironically when real racism rears its head, it can be hard to find allies

06/22/2023

Happening today! This webinar from Gender & Racial Justice PCUSA approaches Anti-Racism as a critical facet of Radical Welcome. Anti-Racism is the active process of identifying and eliminating racism by changing systems, organizational structures, policies and practices and attitudes, so that power is redistributed and shared equitably. Learn more and register for the webinar here: https://hubs.ly/Q01V3KVn0

06/19/2023

A moving piece about history, faith, and accountability from The New York Times.

Enslaved people have been largely left out of the origin story traditionally told about the emergence of Catholicism in the United States.

05/15/2023

Updated: The Racial Justice Team is looking for evaluators from the Hudson River Presbytery to help us as we develop materials to equip us, as people of faith, to discuss issues around race.

We're holding a "soft rollout" on Tuesday, May 30th from 10 AM to 4 PM at Palisades Presbyterian Church. Interested? Contact Kathy Dean at [email protected] and let us know!

04/17/2023

Spirituality and Practice is offering a course called Racial Resilience. Learn more here

April 10 - May 1: An anti-racist training program using compassion-based contemplative practices to hone your capacity to dismantle internalized, interpersonal, and structural racism.

03/30/2023

"At the heart of Christian community is creating belonging where there had been boundary, border, separation and segregation. A Christian sense of belonging always cuts across every other kind of alignment and allegiance."

Eric Barreto interviews Willie James Jennings on what it means to belong.

03/15/2023

This video, unveiled last year at the 225th General Assembly, showcases how a Matthew 25 Congregation is addressing the discovery that an explicitly racist financial gift 100 years ago benefitted the building of the congregation's ministry down to the present day.

By confessing the story of a racist gift from a person buried in church columbarium, the congregation at Knox Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati takes a first step…

03/08/2023

“On Sunday, March 10, 1822, four men and six women swore an oath together in district school #1 on the corner of Concord and Adams Street in the village of Brooklyn,” reads Collette Foster, a member of First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn, New York, in a video series celebrating the congregatio...

03/07/2023

An inspiring model for other congregations looking closely at their own histories of structural racism and systemic poverty that have shaped their ministries. Helping congregations and mid councils do the particular work of reparations is a goal of the newly formed Center for the Repair of Historic Harms within the Presbyterian Mission Agency.

“On Sunday, March 10, 1822, four men and six women swore an oath together in district school #1 on the corner of Concord and Adams Street in the village of Brooklyn,” reads Collette Foster, a member of First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn, New York, in a video series celebrating the congregatio...